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The Occupy Wall Street movement made headlines around the world and spawned hundreds of similar occupation protests internationally. This short multimedia piece reflects on what happened through the voices of some of those who took part and archival footage.

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Taking Power Amidst the Turbulence (w/ Dylan Saba) | The Chris Hedges Report
Occupy Movement: Show Me Your True Face
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Mamdani and Democrats Score Big Wins & Conservatives Melt Down | the Daily Show
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The People, United
The Secret Plan to Tank Zohran | Second Thought
"No Kings" Protests Defy GOP Expectations & Jon Gives Trump a Royal Inspection | the Daily Show
The Psychology of the Portland Green Frog
Zohran Just Reminded Me Why I Believe in Politics | Tennessee Brando
‘We Are the Majority’: Watch Mehdi’s Rousing Speech at the No Kings Protest in DC
The Teachers' Protest: How Norwegian Teachers Defeated Nazi Education (2020) ($6)
Boycott (2021)
Gen Z Protests: This Is Just the Beginning | Alice Cappelle
How To Boycott An Invasion | Matthew Cooke
Elephant Refugees (2020)
Beyond Standing Rock (2024)
What Will Socialism Look Like?
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago. We Can Stand Up to Them | Kat Abughazaleh for Illinois
The Baldies: Anti-Racist Skinheads Fighting Nazis (2021)
Stonewall Uprising (2010)
Why Online Debate Culture Ruins Real Conversation (Goose Explains)
Rachel Carson (2017)
It's Time to Fight Back Against Trump's Fascist Regime (W/ Ralph Nader) | the Chris Hedges Report
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Leftists
Chris Hedges Live Q&A: Where Is America Going and Should You Leave?
The Energy is High for Revolution | Solarpunk Alana
A Leftist's Guide to Debating Capitalism
The DemFluencer-Industrial Complex Must Be Stopped
A Guide To Democratic Socialists of America
We're Breaking Up with Empire | Matthew Cooke
We Need a Civilian Climate Corps
Five Ways To Fight Trump's Fascism | Robert Reich
Amazon’s Secret Plot To Build a Data Center In the Desert
Fighting Fire with Fire: A Conversation with California Governor Gavin Newsom and Heather Cox Richardson
Critiques of "Wokeness" from a Left Perspective
The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi
Wokeness Kills Class Politics and Empowers Empire (w/ Christian Parenti) | The Chris Hedges Report
What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic
Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists
The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi
A Rainbow of Inequality: When Social Control Masquerades as Social Justice
The Problem with Wokeness From a Left Perspective
Exiting the Vampire Castle
An Open Letter: Why I'm Leaving the Cult of Wokeness
The Right's Wokeness Problem
Why I Stopped Being Anti-Woke
Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi
Hey Progressives, Can We Stop Using the Tools of Social Justice to Tear One Another Down?
Cultural Appropriation, White Purity and ‘Woke’ Nationalism
The Theory of White Privilege – Why Racism Is Not a Privilege, but an Injustice
Before & After I Became a Social Justice Vampire
Reflections on Privilege Theory: Why I'm Looking for a Better Way to Communicate This Idea
Why Some Anti-Racist Programs Will Fail and Others Will Succeed
A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves
With Allies Like These: Reflections on Privilege Reductionism
Identity Politics and the Professional-Managerial Class
How "Woke Racism" Hurts Black People | John McWhorter
Privilege Discourse Has Noble Intentions but Perhaps It's Time to Consider Its Unintended Impacts
On Privilege: a Leftist Critique of the Left
The Politics of Being Woke
The Woke CIA PsyOp
Not All Politics Is Identity Politics
A Decolonial Critique of Intersectionality
Democracy Doesn’t Exist in the United States | Chris Hedges
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